skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you have a mass of unemployed or underemployed citizens and you tell them (or show them) that the solution you concocted for their problem is to bring in more workers (directly expanding skilled immigration programs and in the case of illegal immigration... turning a blind eye) you made it a political issue, these people are now likely at odds with your discourse.

I can get behind the argument that MSM uses it this on every election cycle, but to deny that the US workers (both blue and white collar) are getting negatively affected by this is putting on a blindfold.

> ... both blue and white collar, are good for business.

That is a truism, of course more people consuming is good for business. The problem is defining "business", its side effects, and who owns it. There is a whole bunch of work on assessing the impact of immigration on local populations (a lot of it propaganda tbf), but reality is that something that benefits Twitter, Amazon, or Microsoft bottom lines might not be aligned with the interests of the workers in the same geographical areas, and this money might not trickle down at all (btw the failure of trickle down is a very common leftist argument...)

Bezos being able to import a bunch of devs might make him and the landlords in Seattle a bit more rich, but benefit none to Joe the recent graduate that needs a job to pay the bills and cannot really afford to retrain on another field with a more favorable supply/demand ratio.
OpenSecret – The Encrypted Back End
> have absolutely no idea if they even need cookie consent banners

> This is why half the web has cookie-consent banners

Agree, but we as developers can have an impact in this, especially in smaller companies. I've managed to "bark up the ladder" sufficiently to prevent people from mindlessly adding those popups before, and I'm sure others have too.

But those companies have all been companies where user experience is pretty high up on the priority ladder, so it's been easy cases to make.
Do you have any numbers that would verify that? Or even any other statement on that issue? Pretty sure determining the "scale" of any kind of intelligence activity is unbelievably murky, as you might be able to imagine.
Unless you are suggesting selling tobacco is as unethical as torturing and murdering people of different tribes for the sake of them being in different tribes, I do not see what your point could be.

Should people simply never be able to sell or consume tobacco? Even if one’s consumption of tobacco does not negatively affect anyone else?
The Hunley – US Civil War Submarine
> No freedom of speech or conscience, no political freedoms: just work and be an obedient

There is significantly more politics involved in how the CPP is run than you think and people complain more than you seem to believe. It’s far from an open democracy but it’s not North Korea either.
Pretending to be ignorant doesn't change the facts, reinforce your point, or bolster your ridiculous argument that Musk supports free speech. You couldn't possibly be more wrong, and pretending to be ignorant doesn't make you right.

You have access to the same internet everyone else does. Look it up yourself instead of trying to argue with people who are paying attention and put in the time to be informed.

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/27/musk-x-loomer-h1b-maga-veri...

MAGA vs. Musk: Right-wing critics allege censorship, loss of X badges.

A handful of conservative critics of Elon Musk are alleging censorship and claiming they were stripped of their verification badges on X after challenging his views on H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers.
Same :( been using it the last few months as my daily driver.
It’s odd that you think the people implementing the banners want them so they can get more data. They want them because they provide a shield from litigation. I don’t know about you, but in the past year, most of my ads on Facebook are from law firms with headlines like “have you browsed (insert random minor e-commerce site) in the past two years? Your data may have been shared. You may be entitled to compensation.” If I’m a random mom and pop e-commerce site and I do not add a cookie banner, and I use any form of advertising at all, then I am opening myself up to a very expensive lawsuit - and attorneys are actively recruiting randos to serve as plaintiffs despite them never being harmed by “data collection.”

It’s that simple. That’s the situation with CCPA. Not sure the exact form that GDPR penalties take because I’m not European. But it’s not a complicated issue. you have to display some stupid consent thing if you’re going to have the code that you’re required to have in order to buy ads which take people to your website.

Note that plenty of these cookie banner products don’t actually work right, because they’re quite tricky to configure correctly, as they’re attempting to solve a problem within the webpage sandbox that should be solved in the browser settings (and could easily be solved there even today by setting it to discard cookies at close of browser). However, the legal assistants or interns at the law firm pick their victims based on who isn’t showing an obvious consent screen. When they see one, it’s likely that they will move onto the next victim because it’s much easier to prove violation of the law if they didn’t even bother to put up a cookie banner. A cookie banner that doesn’t work correctly is pretty easy to claim as a mistake.
This shouldn't be news to anyone paying attention to Chinese geopolitics.
It was doing kinda okay actually, lol, it's doing much worse now.
I think the idea is that if all good people refuse to become a tobacco exec the pool of people willing to take the job will be small and full of bad people, eventually they will run the business into the ground and the problem solves itself. How well this works in practice is debatable.
My pinkie is what I use for Backspace, Enter, and Right Shift. It resides half on the aluminum, half on plastic. Plastic is a bit taller, and aluminum is a bit cooler -- if I feel that, I know it's in the right spot horizontally. When I move it for an occasional apostrophe (e.g. a moment ago for typing "it's"), I need to put it back in the right position. With an additional set of keys on the right, I can't position it properly without looking at the keyboard.
I recommend you to read this Aesop's fable: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fables_of_Æsop_(Jacobs)/T...
India is friendly with Russia yes but power wise India is just a non entity. It has nothing to make US feel threatened.
what hypocrisy!

it's like my alcoholic doctor telling me I need to cut my drinking: his advice may be sound, but it's rich coming from him.

I'm referring to the people who denied or did not decry the previous twitter administration deleting huge volumes of tweets they didn't like, the people who now populate bluesky and the fediverse they themselves are quite open about saying, because it's a cozy little echo chamber world where the people who disagree are erased from their view
> But if you won’t be the big tabacco exec, someone else will.

In the public discourse, you'll often see CEOs and founders lauded as incredibly brilliant and rare. As soon as you start to talk about ethics though, they're suddenly fungible. "Someone else would run the orphan crushing factory if not for me"
> until recently China wasn't deemed to be a problem either

What changed is Xi Jinping became president. Until then China was considered a good citizen of the world. Xi Jinping started attacking neighbors, claimed ownership of south china sea, and so on, and this aggressive behavior damaged China's reputation.
Regarding his ask that ACM dedicate itself to the public good, the IEEE is already there in its code of ethics.

> hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public, to strive to comply with ethical design and sustainable development practices, to protect the privacy of others, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment

That code is pretty squarely at odds with big tech's latest malevolent aims.
Yeah I also share this experience, pretty much every Chinese person I know will not hesitate to stress how much discrimination has affected everything about their lives abroad, especially education and careers.

Its worth noting how little attention comparable "activities" from "good" countries like Israel or Saudi Arabia get, even when they're turning journalists into barbecue in foreign embassies, illegally installing spyware, backdoors, or even booby-traps on commercial products, or sending money to violent street mobs and mass media campaigns alike to oppose domestic civil protest against their own war crimes against civilians.

Of course I probably don't need to mention when western nations do the same or worse to the "bad" guys.
SLAPP laws in the US vary from place to place, from fairly strong to non-existent. California has strong anti-SLAPP protection, whereas Michigan and Alabama have none at all. There is no federal anti-SLAPP law. So at least federally and in certain US states such litigation would absolutely fly in the US.
Its probably not entirely independent, anyone who knows these two were the only survivors of a crash will probably work to ensure things are extra careful unconsciously
Morality is not completely subjective. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/701478
With the state of the housing market, no one bothers investing in anything else -- it's just not "worth it" when housing is already such a good investment. Not to mention the issue of monopolies.
I think it's important to offset the modafinil effects with something like amitriptyline. Taking only a stimulant will exacerbate dysautonomia and you'll be fighting a losing battle against your bodies corrective mechanisms.

Low Dose Naltrexone works differently to Naltrexone in that the temporary block of the opioid receptor causes a paradoxical natural overreaction to the absence.

The mechanism of action is very complex but it appears that the inflammation -> neurotransmitter dysfunction (e.g. dopamine dysregulation)-> immune system dysfunction -> inflammation cycle creates a bit of a trap that people can get stuck in. Taking enough of the right meds on this cycle does appear to help people break out of that trap.
> He then asked me that whether I'm running in a VM or not and some features wouldn't work in a VM and I should have ran on my actual computer

In the past I would have had a physical machine ready to do tests where I expected VM/hypervisor detection code. Just wipe, rinse, and repeat as needed.

The reason I stopped doing this and also deeply dislike UEFI (or at least the way it works in practice) is that I can never trust the physical computer if I do happen to run such untrusted code on my physical machine even just once. UEFI rootkits are persistent and damn hard to detect. Some days I think I should run everything in a VM.
Seems clean. Does the Racket IDE already support images?
Ah yes, if only Canada had a lion (?) to reduce capital gains tax (?) you’d get more startups (?) which would then magically solve the problem of homeless people being cold in winter.

Or you could, you know, look at perverse housing policy across more or less the entire developed world.
Btw, both clickhouse and timescale are open core. If you care about that.
I agree. This is what I have been doing:

- Respond with a template explaining why I don't want to work for Google|Amazon|Meta|Microsoft|Apple

- Include information of some tech unions the recruiter could join and give reasons to do so

- Talk to colleagues about concerns and what can we do to mitigate current power imbalances

- Talk to family and friends about the industry, its impact on society, and provide help if they would like to try alternative technologies
so many cool innovations in this build!
Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, has terror bombed Lebanon, and is stealing land in Syria for Greater Israel.
Any time there are consequences to actions, the matter of ethics arises. The very act of making decisions that have consequences demands responsibility. This is the reality of being human.

Whether you or anyone else organize consequences as meaningful or not is a moral abdication. The first thing an immoral person does is justifying the consequences of their actions as inconsequential. This happens to such a degree that doing so is a signal of immorality. Immorality doesn't look like choosing evil, it looks like choosing inconsequentialism.
Lol, as if Apple would let you off that easily!

The watch can't have a cellular plan of its own. It must be associated with the plan that's on the iPhone it's tethered to. If you use a dummy iPhone for this purpose, then the SIM for your primary number needs to be on that phone.
Urban Dictionary for Tech Bros
I call it the three-second pause. It's always three to five seconds.
Being in the Weird State of a Mid-Sized SaaS
UK itself is a particularly interesting case,

In Turkey when they have a new shiny politician, there's a running joke to check if they went to University of Exeter. For some reason, all the lightly islamist politicians of Turkey have been to Exeter at some point in their life.
Similarly, I regularly see lots of HPC support job openings at universities in the US. These pay much less than similar jobs in the real world and they are not particularly well advertised -- you have to go looking for them. Could keep the op in the black until something better is found.
Apple already communicates home by default. They never even fixed the macOS app signature check that they said they would, and yet people still choose to use the OS.

(And to be clear I’m not even bothered by the signature check)

At a certain point you have to figure that they realize it doesn’t matter short of some government entity forcing them to stop. At the very least the protections they put in place (homomorphic encryption, etc) are more than I think most other companies would ever bother doing.
People's Liberation Army at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre:

六四清場，國外有稱「六四屠殺」，也被中国政府称为是平息反革命暴乱，即在1989年6月3日晚至6月4日早晨，以中国共产党领导人邓小平为首的中央军事委员会命令中国人民解放军戒严部队於中国首都北京市對六四事件示威者進行武力清場的事件。
Point me to which of those reports is fabricated...

There have been a lot of negative articles in any publication about, say, Trump, it doesn’t mean there isn’t major substance to those articles.
None, but that's exactly the point. _Everyone_ would like to have more of it.

This is a unifaceted way of posing problems, often also done with monopolization.
Well I would be very interested in some of this, but it all seems theoretical and mythical. Seriously, what terminal is giving 20% better battery life (or whatever number that people will notice) than kitty.

How can I observe any of these claims in practice?
You’ve put some down some bold claims about how things should be done but no way to verify or validate them at all.
Put up with some real power benchmarks or this is just crack pot.

> To get over 12 hours of battery life out of a 60 Wh battery - which isn't impressive nowadays with laptops rocking 20+ hours

I used 12 hours to be nice. The sell of getting another 10 minutes or so out of 20 hours is even more stark.

The cases where you push a line and scroll, you're repainting most of it anyway. The cases where you're not are end up being infrequent enough that optimizing them in the ways suggested makes an unnoticeable impact.
Build it and they will come maybe?

> Bigger GPUs than your iGPU (or even just later iGPUs) will also likely see even bigger impacts.

In most cases people can get by with an iGPU for a battery laptop cases. If you're in a must pull down more graphical power case, you're often plugged in and few care about 10s of milliwatts then.

> (As an aside, I am not a fan of kitty - they have really weird frame management and terrible recommendations on their wiki. Foot, alacritty or if ghostty turns out good, maybe even that would be better suggestions. Note that comparing to foot can give a wrong image, as CPU-based rendering pushes work to the display server and gives the illusion of being faster and more efficient than it really is.)

Once again, what is the exemplar of an efficient terminal then.
We've already established ghostty doesn't operate the way you think it should so how can it turn out good?
It's not mechanical switches, but I wish the fancy keyboard folks would get more interested in high quality scissor switches. Apple's A1243, the classic wired external keyboard, is nearly perfect for me. I finally gave up on mechanical keyboards and bought a few new-old-stock Apple keyboards to last me for the next decade or more.

The unique thing about Apple keyboards is the very low profile keycaps and a tiny 0.9mm travel. Matias makes some very nice scissor keyboards but their 2.0mm travel feels different. Also they don't register quite as accurately, I have a lot of miskeys on them.
> US fully recovered from Great Depression in 1939

this is disinformation. source: relatives that were alive in California and other states at that time
India is a nuclear weapon state
I'm shocked this is a thread on HN.

Until recently these threads were flagged and removed from HN, and participants to conversations stating these things were warned of possible future bans.

It looks like the conversation has changed quite dramatically. The geopolitical tone has trickled down to tech and VC.

Firms like a16z are going all in on "American dynamism", which is basically about competition with China.

It's almost every week you hear about China's sixth gen fighters, NGAD, drones, military spending, etc. in the media. Now the various institutional interests want to invest in capabilities to deter this.

But this kind of conversation, even if handled delicately in a way that was super mindful of not being xenophobic, was entirely forboden just a few short years ago.

Talking about Chinese national students as possible spies. Wow. My ban avoidance scar tissue still tingles with this subject matter. I'm wondering out loud if this geopolitical tension and rivalry is kosher to talk about now.
The internet but not the www existed when I started out. Cover letters were handwritten, the CV was typed and the lot was posted or delivered by hand.
-100x engineer. straight from the field CIA manual for sabotage PDF.
Many recruiters continue to reach out to me on LinkedIn mostly, including FAANG companies. All of the positions are either a 3-2 hybrid or completely on-site. In such cases, these companies want to phone screen and have the first round technical interview via Zoom or something. I've been telling the recruiter that, unless the company allows fully-remote work, I will not allow for a remote interview; however I am happy to interview so long as the entire process is on-site. That includes everything that would normally be done remote, such as the initial phone screen. I'm tired of companies (think of some well-known ones) having it both ways: remote interviews are OK for them but not remote work. If enough smart, technical people told these companies "no, I won't allow you to conduct a remote interview for a non-remote position" then things may change.
From the abstract this is a very interesting paper. I’ll spend this afternoon digging in. But I see a problem already: reality trumps academic exercise or humanity’s aggregated, self-description of its morality.

“Morality-as-cooperation draws on the theory of non-zero-sum games to identify distinct problems of cooperation and their solutions, and it predicts that specific forms of cooperative behavior—including helping kin, helping your group, reciprocating, being brave, deferring to superiors, dividing disputed resources, and respecting prior possession—will be considered morally good wherever they arise, in all cultures.”

Who is kin? Who are one’s superiors? What is prior possession? These are all questions of ideology and power. The only universal code all humanity agrees on is might makes right.
What's the benefit of index-free?
Nazis were political leaders. So yes, you should try to be a good political leader to prevent the growth in power of bad ones.
I made the choice to change my occupation for a more moral one. One issue is, you lose a lot of social credit doing so. It’s seen as a personal failure rather than a choice. It might also be that implicitly challenging their choices makes people uncomfortable.

How do you meet people who take responsibility for their life design?
Even then, the priority for nukes is availability not “security” - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_action_link

> For a long time the U.S. military resisted the use of PALs. It feared the loss of its own independence, and it feared malfunction, which could put warheads out of action in a time of crisis.
I'm reminded of the King of the Hill episode where Peggy publishes advice in her newspaper column telling her readers to mix ammonia and bleach for better cleaning, not realizing it creates toxic chloramine gas.
Well, ok, people in the defense industry would agree it's not immoral to make weapons, and the more extremist may even call it immoral not to make weapons (though I doubt many would, this is an extreme view. I also wonder if it's truly heartfelt or simply convenient while they hold defense industry jobs, and forgotten when they start working elsewhere).

It doesn't follow at all that the best way to defend Western institutions is to build weapons.

(Yes, I realize these aren't your views and that you're merely describing them. But this Alex Karp guy isn't here to debate directly with him...)
One of your examples has an issue I've run into with a lot of AI generated art/logos/text... it has a spelling error. https://www.ailogogenerator.sh/logo-templates/Jungle-Jump

The logo the AI made just says "junge" jump...
Amazing how this site's comments have been decaying in quality since a few years now. Obvious propaganda article, from a media that doesn't even try to hide that it's mainly a propaganda media, is commented on seriously without any kind of reality filter, and it gets to the top comments...
Still not a specific case. If you're referring to Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, that was decided in 2008, so at most that's 19 years if the lawsuit was filed immediately after the spill. Granted, this is more than the "5-10 years" I initially estimated, but the lengthy litigation is only over the punitive damages, so in the context of "Option C). Pay 1 billion to keep the lawsuit going forever.", that's not really applicable. At best you can keep litigation going for 19 years to avoid paying the full amount, but you're going to have to compensatory damages far before that.
Image boards like 4chan are quite free, even without Elon
Long ago I worked at a company that had equipment sold to a US military contractor and we had to send someone onsite to fix it.

You were instructed that anything you had in your vehicle when you got to the gate (in the middle of nowhere) might be confiscated. Show up with the rental car, keys, ID, and necessary equipment only. Nothing but you and your clothing would leave the site, yes it cost a laptop each visit (that we sent ahead). ID, car and keys stayed at the gate.

Blindfolded while onsite until you got to the equipment, someone would take you to the bathroom.

It was a lot, but I suspect some form of “all electronics dropped here” should be the SOP in a lot of places.

It kinda horrifies me when I hear about congressional members upset about not being able to take their phones to some meetings and so on.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_State_Security_(...
I don't know how your comment is related to the article under discussion. If innovation could solve homelessness, San Francisco wouldn't have had the crisis it currently does. I don't know how changing Toronto to be more like SF in terms of tech companies is supposed to solve homelessness. At best, these are orthogonal issues.